[Thursday] Imagine a NEWSM machine shop …

[Vbob]

My Handey lathe has 12” swing - 5’ bed. Two of us got it in here, but that was a long time ago. 

Last used in the early 1980s by MIT roommate to build jigs and fixtures to fabricate sample F15 fuel vent port cowlings to satisfy a proof of ability to bid on a repair parts contract.

He did it to prove a point that two guys in a garage could get DoD parts contracts - then he turned it down, and gave me the lathe. There’s more to the story, but it sounds better with beer.

Lathe is in treet level ex-storefront under my home, floor about 10” above sidewalk, since taken over as a pantry and overflow shoe storage by my partner. 

So first I need to negotiate alternative shoe stacking area, then we simply crib up sidewalk to meet floor and use pipe rollers to nudge it out the door onto a lowboy trailer.

Got my 10x15 Chandler & Price printing press out that way about 5 years ago… piece of cake. Heavy dense fruitcake, but still cake.

Vbob



> On Feb 23, 2024, at 6:36 PM, Robert Vincent <robvi3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Moving it will be a task depending on how big it is.
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> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:07 PM Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org <mailto:thursday at newsm.org>> wrote:
> That’s a beauty, Bob!
> We also have several 1907 era machines that belonged to
> Walter Massie, the guy who ran the PJ wireless business.
> All we need is a massive expansion grant!
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> Ken
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> On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 5:39 PM, Vbob <vbob at whipplestreet.net <mailto:vbob at whipplestreet.net>> wrote:
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> I have a Hendey 12 x 5 cone-head lathe sn 2699 (from about 1925) that the museum is welcome to have. It’s a bit buried in our pantry (long story) but I’ll look for better pictures and dimensions.
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>> On Feb 22, 2024, at 4:26 PM, Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org <mailto:thursday at newsm.org>> wrote:
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>> The following link shows a classic machine shop ..
>> so cool, wooden time clock and oily wooden floors just 
>> like the Lafayette mill I once worked in. Of course when I
>> worked there all we had left were the high ceilings and
>> oiled wood floor. Maybe we could have one corner of
>> an extended steam building or an expanded shop
>> building. 
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